We are back in Honduras!!! After a GREAT time in the States we are back to Honduras! And of course, not without an adventure (I must post the story of our “adventure” leaving Honduras)!
We arrived in Colomoncagua exhausted and drained. The trip back here was long and we were lugging a lot of stuff around with us. We opened the door to our house and everything seemed normal, except that we had some new neighbors. Then we opened up our back door and…..it was filled with animals! Okay, so not filled, but there were a lot of chickens and roosters and a couple of pigs. There was chicken poop all over the porch and the kitchen area. I burst into tears and Brian took action. He went to our land lord and asked him what was going on. He told Brian that his brother came back from the States and was moving (ahem had moved) into the house. He also told us that the house is his brother’s and not his. We had to move out RIGHT AWAY.
Well, I wanted to go home. I just thought that this was incredibly disrespectful and really pretty darn mean. Brian said I shouldn’t and couldn’t go home - and he went off to look for a new place to live, while I had a mini nervous breakdown. Brian found us a house almost right away and begged the woman to let us move in ASAP. She was hesitant, as the house was dirty and needed some work, but he begged and she caved. So we packed up and moved our stuff (with no help from our land lord or his brother - nice people, huh?) with the help of some of our friends in town. Our new land lady and her family came over and helped us to clean the whole house and back yard for three days.
Our new land lady is incredible. She is super nice as are her kids and her husband. They are a pretty prominent family in Colo and everyone knows and respects them. She is a teacher and her husband owns a hardware store here in town and also does veterinary services for farm animals. Our house has a bunch of storage rooms in the back filled with old furniture and other stuff and we are allowed to use just about anything we want. Our house has a living room, a small bedroom, and a bathroom attached to the bedroom (it is pretty large so we keep our clothes there, too.). The toilet works only sometimes and when there is water it runs constantly (and if you look at the pictures it is not a pretty toilet!) also we have an indoor shower with an electraducha (a shower head with electricity running through it to heat the water), but the heating part is broken so we get cold water. They are supposed to come and fix the toilet and the shower. Also, there is a kitchen outside (but it is covered and mostly enclosed), an extra room (with two broken stoves), and a pila. We also have a decent size backyard. The house also came with a little cat named Min (pronounced Meeen), which we have started feeding. She is pretty small and can barely meow, but so far she has been good company!
We are once again neighbors with our old neighbor Dinora. Her new comedor is just across the basketball courts from us. I have posted pictures of the house, but not yet of the basketball courts or Dinora’s. The woman in the photos with Brian is our boss and Country Director of Peace Corps Honduras, Trudy Jacox. She came for a visit last week.
Other than that, not much else is new. We are getting settled into our Honduras routine - not really doing anything!!! - and getting ready for the school year to start. We have some meetings next week with Peace Corps and I have some allergy and blood tests coming up (I have terrible allergies here and was anemic at my last check up). We are also planning a trip into El Salvador and planning where we want to visit in Honduras this year - we are hoping to get some visitors from the States to go with us!!! Hint hint…
We are already missing the yummy food from the States, but not happy about those extra pounds we gained while being home! And, of course, hot showers (why are those so wonderful!!).
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